12-13-2011, 08:07 AM
Serious point. When I'm letting a ballad type piece simply flow...it reads pretty good to me. Then I check to see how many beats in a line I have and try to get a fairly even number - or maybe 7 then 5, the 7 then 5 type of thing. But, do you know often it then doesn't flow - my question...some words aren't like real words are they - whatjamacallits (like - the, a, or, is) they kind of get swallowed and so can't be counted as whole syllables, can they? Am I talking nonsense, here? I'm kinda thinking out loud on this.

